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作者：Ching, Kenny; Forti, Enrico; Rawley, Evan
作者单位：Worcester Polytechnic Institute; University of London; University College London; Manhattan University; Columbia University; University of Connecticut
摘要：Team production is ubiquitous in the economy, but managing teams effectively remains a challenge for many organizations. This paper studies how familiarity among teammates influences the performance of specialist teams, relative to nonspecialist teams. Applying theories of team production to contexts where team members coordinate interdependent activities extemporaneously, we develop predictions about factors that shift the marginal returns to specialization along two dimensions of familiarity...
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作者：Kellogg, Katherine C.; Myers, Jenna E.; Gainer, Lindsay; Singer, Sara J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Adventist Health Services; AdventHealth; Mass General Brigham; Stanford University
摘要：We explore how members of a community of practice learn new tools and techniques when environmental shifts undermine existing expertise. In our 20-month comparative field study of medical assistants and patient-service representatives learning to use new digital technology in five primary care sites, we find that the traditional master-apprentice training model worked well when established practices were being conferred to trainees. When environmental change required introducing new tools and ...
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作者：Armanios, Daniel Erian; Eesley, E. Charles
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Stanford University
摘要：How do we reconcile misalignments between a system's existing normative and cognitive elements and novel regulatory change? Prior work either largely focuses only on regulatory change or analyzes normative and cognitive barriers in parallel to rather than in interaction with regulatory change. Moreover, the institutional entrepreneurship literature that focuses on reconciling such misalignments is predominantly centered on the tactics of entrepreneurs rather than the support provided by instit...
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作者：Harvey, Sarah; Mueller, Jennifer S.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of San Diego
摘要：Organizations that desire creativity often use groups like task forces, decision panels, and selection committees with the primary purpose of evaluating novel ideas. Those groups need to keep at least some novel ideas alive while also assessing the usefulness of ideas. Research suggests, however, that such groups often prefer proven ideas whose usefulness can be easily predicted and reject novel ideas early in the course of discussion. How those groups deal with the tension between novelty and...
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作者：Rerup, Claus; Zbaracki, Mark J.
作者单位：Frankfurt School Finance & Management; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Actors engaged in learning from rare events must trade off between two different criteria for effective learning: validity-the extent to which learning can be used for understanding, prediction, and control-and reliability-the extent to which understandings of experience are public, stable, and shared. Existing models of learning from rare events have elided conflict and politics by assuming that individuals and organizations always seek new valid knowledge that then becomes public, stable, an...
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作者：Xing, Zhe (Adele); Mayer, Kyle J.; Xie, Xuanli; Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Klijn, Elko
作者单位：Santa Clara University; University of Southern California; Peking University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Old Dominion University
摘要：Despite the large literature on alliance contract design, we know little about how transacting parties change and amend their underlying contracts during the execution of strategic alliances. Drawing on existing research in the alliance contracting literature, we develop the empirical question of how contract detail and prior ties influence the amount, direction, and type of change in such agreements during the collaboration. We generated a sample of 115 joint ventures (JVs) by distributing a ...
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作者：Zhang, Yuchen; Tong, Tony W.
作者单位：Tulane University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Although it is well established that vertical integration decisions have important consequences for firms, direct evidence on how vertical integration matters to firm innovation has been scarce. This study draws from seminal research on organizing for innovation and recent synthesis of transaction cost and capabilities theories to examine how vertical integration affects the rate and types of firm innovation pursued. To strengthen identification of causal effects, we exploit a quasi-experiment...
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作者：Denrell, Jerker; Liu, Chengwei
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：When does market success indicate superior merit? We show that when consumer choices between products with equal prices depend on quality but also on past popularity, more popular products are not necessarily of higher quality. Rather, a medium level of popularity may be associated with lower quality than lower levels of popularity. Using a formal model, we show that this kind of nonmonotonic association occurs when reinforcing processes are strong. More generally, a dip can occur when outcome...
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作者：Gorbatai, Andreea; Dioun, Cyrus; Lashley, Kisha
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Virginia
摘要：Legitimacy is critical to the formation and expansion of nascent fields because it lends credibility and recognizability to once overlooked actors and practices. At the same time, legitimacy can be a double-edged sword precisely because it facilitates field growth, attracting actors with discrepant practices that may lead to factionalization and undermine the coherence of the field's collective identity. In this paper, we investigate how organizations can mitigate the downside of legitimation ...
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作者：Liu, Chengwei
摘要：The persistent failure of organizations to engage diversity-to employ a diverse workforce and fully realize its potential-is puzzling, as it creates labor-market ineffi-ciencies and untapped opportunities. Addressing this puzzle from a behavioral strategy as arbitrage perspective, this paper argues that attractive opportunities tend to be protected by strong behavioral and social limits to arbitrage. I outline four limits-cognizing, searching, reconfiguring, and legitimizing (CSRL)-that deter ...
